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 Translation for 'Klaipėda Region' from English to French
géogr.hist.pol.
territoire {m} de Memel
Klaipėda Region
géogr.hist.pol.
région {f} de Klaipėda
Klaipėda Region
Partial Matches
géogr.
Klaipėda {f} [ville lituanien]
Klaipėda [earlier: Memel]
géogr.
territoire {m} de Memel [aussi : région de Klaipėda]
Klaipėda County [previously in East Prussia, now a county in Lithuania]
agr.œnol.
terroir {m}
region
géogr.
contrée {f}
region
région {f}region
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alpin.sporttourisme
domaine {m} skiable
skiing region
géogr.
région {f} voisine de la frontière
border region
alpin.sporttourisme
domaine {m} skiable
ski region
géogr.
Orléanais {m}
Orléans region
écon.géogr.
région {f} économique
economic region
écon.mines
région {f} minière
mining region
écol.géogr.hydro.
région {f} littorale
littoral region
écol.géogr.hydro.
région {f} littorale
coastal region
géogr.
bassin {m} de la Ruhr
Ruhr region
géogr.mines
bassin {m} minier
mining region
adm.pol.
circonscription {f} administrative
administrative region
écon.pol.
zone {f} économique
economic region
œnol.
région {f} viticole
wine region
œnol.
région {f} vinicole
wine region
anat.
région {f} scapulaire
shoulder region
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  • région {f} de Klaipėda = Memel Territory
  • région {f} de Klaipėda = Klaipėda Region
  • Klaipėda {f} [ville lituanien] = Klaipėda [earlier: Memel]
  • région {f} = region
  • région {f} = area
  • région {f} tempérée = temperate climate
  • région {f} littorale = coastal region
  • région {f} littorale = coastal area
  • région {f} minière = mining area
  • région {f} minière = mining region
  • région {f} manufacturière = industrial area
  • région {f} économique = economic region
  • région {f} économique = economic area
  • région {f} pelvienne = pelvic area
  • région {f} littorale = littoral region
  • région {f} bananière = banana-growing region
  • région {f} viticole = wine region
  • région {f} vinicole = wine region
  • région {f} scapulaire = shoulder region
  • région {f} montagneuse = highlands {pl}
  • rayonner dans la région = to visit the region
  • région {f} à vocation agricole = farming area
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Usage Examples English
  • The Klaipėda Region or Memel Territory was defined by the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 when it was put under the administration of the Council of Ambassadors.
  • The trans-Niemen part of East Prussia (Klaipėda Region) became a League of Nations mandate as of 10 January 1920 and parts of Prussian Silesia were either annexed by Czechoslovakia (Hlučín Region) or Poland (Polish Silesia), while four congregations of the Rhenish ecclesiastical province were seized by Belgium, and many more became part of the Mandatory Saar (League of Nations).
  • The Klaipėda Region (...), which was dissected from East Prussia after World War I and annexed by Lithuania in the Klaipėda Revolt of 1923, continued the usage of the terms "Landesdirektor" (i.e.
  • The city was part of the Klaipėda Region and ethnographic Lithuania Minor.
  • In March 1939 Nazi Germany demanded that Lithuania give up the Klaipėda Region (also known as the Memel Territory), which had been detached from Germany after World War I.

  • After the Klaipėda Revolt of 1923, Merkys became secretary to the Klaipėda Region Commissioner, Antanas Smetona.
  • After World War I, Nidden, together with the northern half of the Curonian Spit became part of the Klaipėda Region according to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and was annexed by Lithuania in 1923.
  • Before 1945, the dialect was spoken along the entire then-German-settled Baltic Coast from Mecklenburg, through Pomerania, West Prussia into certain villages of the East Prussian Klaipėda Region.
  • In 1945, the Soviets denied the existence of the Lithuania Minor ethnographic region, out of political advantage, and declared the Klaipėda region a part of Žemaitija.
  • Powiśle, Warmia and Masuria are now in Poland (most of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, and the four counties of Pomeranian Voivodeship east of Vistula), the former Memelland or Klaipėda region is now divided between the Klaipėda and Tauragė counties of Lithuania, while the rest of the northern Prussia forms the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave of the Russian Federation.

  • The Memel Territory (Klaipėda region), formerly part of northeastern East Prussia as well as Prussian Lithuania, was annexed by Lithuania in 1923.
  • The Klaipėda Region (...) or Memel Territory ([...] or "Memelgebiet") was defined by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles in 1920 and refers to the northernmost part of the German province of East Prussia, when as Memelland it was put under the administration of the Entente's Council of Ambassadors.
  • 1 Source: [...]. The Klaipėda Region was annexed from Germany in 1923, but was not included in the 1923 census. A separate census in the Klaipėda region was held in 1925.
  • Though the Potsdam Agreement referred only to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, expulsions also occurred in Romania, where the Transylvanian Saxons were deported and their property disseized, and in Yugoslavia. In the Soviet territories, Germans were expelled from northern East Prussia (Oblast Kaliningrad) but also from the adjacent Lithuanian Klaipeda Region and other lands settled by Baltic Germans.
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